The show begins under the floodlights in Qatar on 18th March, and Valencia brings down the curtain with the finale once more - but this time a little later, on 18th November. And with the exciting addition of Buriram in Thailand, set to be the first of the flyaways, it’s now 19 races on an action-packed 2018 calendar.

You know me well hardly ever in the country at the moment but when I am I spend most of the time getting grief about not being here. So chance of of disappearing at the weekend to do something I actually enjoy doing is marginally higher then 0